On the 12th anniversary of the Mumbai terror attacks on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that India will never forget the wounds inflicted during the 2008 attacks, adding that the country is now fighting terrorism with new policies. Modi also paid tribute to the policemen and all the citizens who lost their lives in the attacks. “Today it is associated with the largest terrorist attack in the country. In 2008, Pakistani terrorists attacked Mumbai. Many Indians were killed in this attack. People from many more countries died. I pay my respects to all those who died in the Mumbai attack, ”he said.
The prime minister also paid tribute to the security forces who he said are trying to defend India and foiling conspiracies such as the Mumbai attacks.
On November 26, 2008, Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists had carried out 12 coordinated attacks with shooting and shelling that lasted four days in Mumbai. At least 166 people, including six Americans and nine terrorists, were killed and more than 300 injured in the attacks. Taj Mahal Hotel, Oberoi Hotel, Leopold Cafe, Nariman House (Chabad), and Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Train Station were some of the places noted.
The Prime Minister addressed a conference of heads of legislative bodies to mark the celebrations of Constitution Day in Gujarat’s Kevadia. The Lok Sabha has organized the two-day conference on the banks of the Narmada River to celebrate Constitution Day. The theme of the event is “Harmonious Coordination Between the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Power: Key to a Vibrant Democracy.”
The Prime Minister said that from the role of the judiciary, executive and legislative, the rules on their decorum are defined in the Constitution of India. “In the 1970s, we saw how they tried to dissolve the dignity of the separation of powers, but the country only got the answer from the Constitution,” he said.
“After that period of emergency, the system of checks and balances grew stronger and stronger. The legislative, executive and judicial powers, the three learned a lot from that period and made progress, ”he added.
Modi also spoke about the strength of the Constitution, which he said made it possible to hold assembly elections in Bihar even during the coronavirus pandemic. “The world has also seen the strengthening of our electoral system at the same time in Covid-19. It is not so easy to have elections on such a large scale, results on time, the formation of a new government without problems. The strength we got from our constitution makes all those difficult tasks easier, ”he said.
President Ram Nath Kovind, Rajya Sabha Vice President and President M Venkaiah Naidu, Lok Sabha President Om Birla, and Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani were among those addressing the program on Wednesday.
Expressing happiness on the issue, the president said Wednesday that the three state organs – the executive, the legislative and the judiciary – have been working in harmony and the tradition has taken strong roots here in India. He expressed confidence that the democratic system in India will be further strengthened by adopting the conclusions drawn from the deliberations during the conference.
.
